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"Semiconductor" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Silicon is a semiconductor.
An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte, a vacuum or air).
Automakers are grappling with semiconductor shortages.
Despite having a business degree, Lee worked as an office assistant at a semiconductor manufacturer.
U.S. automaker General Motors Corporation announced Monday it will build certain 2021 light-duty full-size pickup trucks without a fuel management module due to the global semiconductor chip shortage.
Sputter deposition is widely employed in the semiconductor industry.
India's ambitions to create a domestic semiconductor manufacturing capability got a boost with this week's announcement of a $19.5 billion investment by Taiwanese electronic company Foxconn and local conglomerate Vedanta.
If the bill advances to the House, it would mark the second time a bipartisan group of senators tried to secure money for the semiconductor industry.
Car makers are struggling to deal with semiconductor shortages.
Holonyms: chip, microchip, integrated circuit
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Integrated circuits are made from semiconductors, especially silicon.
In this sense we are to understand the following table in which bodies are classed as conductors, semiconductors, and nonconductors; those bodies being conveniently designated as conductors which, when applied to an electroscope charged with either kind of electricity discharge it almost instantaneously; semiconductors being those which discharge it in a short but measurable time, a few seconds, for instance; while nonconductors effect no discharge even, in the course of a minute.
The following table of conductors may therefore be used in inverse order as a table of resistances, the good conductors being bodies of slight resistance, the semiconductors being bodies of great resistance, and the insulators being bodies of so great resistance that they almost effectually oppose the passage of any current.
Near-synonyms: chip, microchip, integrated circuit
The company supplies semiconductors to laptop, server, and smartphone manufacturers.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Wednesday said its revenues increased more sharply in the first quarter of 2024 than in any previous quarter since 2022 following a surge in demand for microchips driven by the artificial-intelligence boom. TSMC, which supplies semiconductors to top companies including Apple and Nvidia, posted a 16.5% increase in its first-quarter sales to NT$592.64 billion ($18.54 billion), in a sign the global chip market has now started recovering from the major slump that hit sales in 2023.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo proudly held up the progress of American industry on semiconductor manufacturing Sunday, declaring the U.S. has “outinnovated” China as the two nations fight to advance their domestic technology manufacturing.
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